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Papers. I was sure his threats would not succeed, and would instead prolong
the ground war and enlarge the air war, with heavy further casualties on
both sides.

I mentioned in the introduction,

He secretly gave up his plans for attacking the North at that time. But he
continued until the end of the month with a secret global alert of SAC—
deliberately designed to be visible to Soviet intelligence but not to the
American public, with the intent of making his nuclear threats credible to
the Soviets and the North Vietnamese while keeping them unknown to the
public.